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Sombre Soniks are very excited to announce a new release from thee excellent and eklektik Temple Music this month with ‘Endotaph’, their new work featuring five kompositions with a deeply psychedelik feel.

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"Endotaph’, the new album by Temple Music, continues in the same vein as last year’s ‘Thanatafferent matter’, although with less of an overall krautrock/kosmische vibe, and more of a harking back to the bands drone/psych roots. Recorded entirely at Bridge House Studios on the Greek island of Evia there is inevitably a Greek-tinged hue to the proceedings.

The album opens with ‘ο Oυρανός’, the tale of the emasculation of the primal earth god Uranus at the hands of his son, Cronos; in sonic terms it’s almost ‘In Search of Space’ era Hawkwind. ‘Feldsparring’ is one of the two more traditionally guitar based tracks; the other being the title track ‘Endotaph’ ;both are drone/psych/stoner in nature. ‘Leiche’ is a space take on the Lyke Wake Dirge, and the final track is a setting of a new translation of the celebrated Greek poet CP Cavafy’s ‘And I Lounged And Lay On Their Beds’."

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This is the first in a series of collaborations between artists on the Cryo Chamber dark ambient label on the theme of the Lovecraftian Elder Gods. As you would expect if you've read your Lovecraft and listened to dark ambient material before, it's intensely atmospheric and ominous, with a pervasive sense of cosmic dread and impending doom. The slow buildup as the eponymous deity slowly stirs from his long slumber is extremely effective. I'll definitely be checking out others in the series. Reuben Sammitch

Unique soundscape covering billions of years in distinct yet coherent tracks. Starting out earthy, and progressing to the futuristically dissonant choirs of Singularity, the musical arc is perfect. jpvdv71